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The flow of precious metals in and out of Spain also stimulated the European economy as a whole. [15] The flow of precious metals made many traders wealthy, both in Spain and abroad. As a result of the discovery of precious metals in Spanish America, Spain's money supply increased tenfold. [16]
The dinero (diner in Catalan) was the currency of many of the Christian states of the Iberian Peninsula from the 10th century. [1] It evolved from the Carolingian denar (in Latin denarius) and was adopted by all Iberian Peninsula Carolingian-originated States: the Kingdom of Pamplona/Navarre, the Kingdom of Aragon, and the Catalan Counties.
Spain had learned about Cook's 1778 explorations along the coast of the Pacific Northwest. In June 1779, during the expedition of Arteaga and Bodega y Quadra, Spain entered the American Revolutionary War as an ally of France, precipitating a parallel Anglo-Spanish War, which continued until the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Arteaga and Bodega y Quadra ...
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.
Spanish explorers claimed land for the crown in the modern-day states of Alabama, Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and California. [43] Puerto Rico was also colonized by the Spanish during this era, occasioning the earliest contact between Africans and what would become the United States (via ...
Spain and the United States: Since World War II (Praeger, 1984) Shneidman, Jerome Lee. Spain & Franco, 1949–59: Quest for international acceptance (1973) online free to borrow; Solsten, Eric, and Sandra W. Meditz. Spain: A country study (Library of Congress, 1988) online; Volker, Kurt. "America and Spain: renewing a strategic partnership."
The couple took a short trip to Andalusia, Spain, in 2016, but neither could have predicted they’d end up relocating there just a few months later. Why this American couple swapped California ...
In July 1952 that ship made the crossing in 3 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes. Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2 is the only ship currently making regular transatlantic crossings throughout the year, usually between Southampton and New York. For this reason it has been designed as a proper ocean liner, not as a cruise ship.